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recurved

recurved is the simple past and past participle of recurve.

Meaning of recurve

Verb

recurve (third-person singular simple present recurves, present participle recurving, simple past and past participle recurved)

  1. To curve again, to rebend.
  2. To curve back on itself.
  3. To change direction.
    • Nearly all of the storms which originate in the Cape Verde region first move in a westerly direction over the Atlantic and later recurve in a northerly or northeasterly direction.1934, Ivan Ray Tannehill, The Hurricane, page 6

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Adjective

recurved (comparative more recurved, superlative most recurved)

  1. Curved or bent, either in two different directions, or back on itself.
    • We will not, however, travel on his "elephants' snouts in coat armour," beyond a field or, with "the proboscide of an elephant, erected, flexed and recurved gules, issuing out of a pierced place; towards the basis thereof, a rose-sprig vertant et revertant, about the trunk to the middle thereof...1827, William Hone, The Every-day Book: Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastime, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five...

Forms of recurved

comparativemore recurved
superlativemost recurved

Words formed from recurved

Questions about recurved

What does recurved mean?
Recurved means curved or bent, either in two different directions, or back on itself.
What is recurved the simple past and past participle of?
Recurved is the simple past and past participle of recurve.
What part of speech is recurved?
Recurved is an adjective.

Words near recurved in the dictionary

  1. recurve bows
  2. recurve-billed bushbird
  3. recurve-billed bushbirds
  4. recurvebill
  5. recurvebills
  6. recurved
  7. recurvedly
  8. recurves
  9. recurving
  10. recurvings
  11. recurvirostrid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recurved (page history and authors); recurve (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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